• Re: The notion of a "well founded justification tree" will be fullyelaborated (signature update)

    From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Wed Jun 17 15:01:20 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 24/04/2026 15:41, olcott wrote:

    A proposition has a well-founded justification tree
    if there is a sequence of back-chained inference
    steps from that proposition to the axioms of the
    formal system.

    By "back-chained inference steps" you mean "chained reversals of
    inferences steps"?
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Wed Jun 17 09:50:30 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 6/17/2026 9:01 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/04/2026 15:41, olcott wrote:

    A proposition has a well-founded justification tree
    if there is a sequence of back-chained inference
    steps from that proposition to the axioms of the
    formal system.

    By "back-chained inference steps" you mean "chained reversals of
    inferences steps"?


    It is exactly the same as inference steps from the
    axioms to the expression yet can be done much more
    quickly because a forward looking search is not
    required. All theorem proving systems use back-chaining
    for this reason.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Wed Jun 17 08:03:25 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 06/17/2026 07:50 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 9:01 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/04/2026 15:41, olcott wrote:

    A proposition has a well-founded justification tree
    if there is a sequence of back-chained inference
    steps from that proposition to the axioms of the
    formal system.

    By "back-chained inference steps" you mean "chained reversals of
    inferences steps"?


    It is exactly the same as inference steps from the
    axioms to the expression yet can be done much more
    quickly because a forward looking search is not
    required. All theorem proving systems use back-chaining
    for this reason.


    Hilbert-Bernays paradox


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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Wed Jun 17 10:15:15 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 6/17/2026 10:03 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 07:50 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 9:01 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/04/2026 15:41, olcott wrote:

    A proposition has a well-founded justification tree
    if there is a sequence of back-chained inference
    steps from that proposition to the axioms of the
    formal system.

    By "back-chained inference steps" you mean "chained reversals of
    inferences steps"?


    It is exactly the same as inference steps from the
    axioms to the expression yet can be done much more
    quickly because a forward looking search is not
    required. All theorem proving systems use back-chaining
    for this reason.


    Hilbert-Bernays paradox



    (T) The sentence ′P′ is true if and only if P
    The sentence "snow is white" (syntax) is true only if
    {snow is white} (semantics) is state of the world.

    This sentence is not true: "This sentence is not true"
    the outer sentence is true on the basis that the inner
    sentence is not truth apt.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93Bernays_paradox

    % This sentence is not true.
    ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
    LP = not(true(LP)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
    false.

    All instances of pathological self-reference
    are rejected as semantically incoherent.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Wed Jun 17 09:08:50 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 06/17/2026 08:15 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 10:03 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 07:50 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 9:01 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/04/2026 15:41, olcott wrote:

    A proposition has a well-founded justification tree
    if there is a sequence of back-chained inference
    steps from that proposition to the axioms of the
    formal system.

    By "back-chained inference steps" you mean "chained reversals of
    inferences steps"?


    It is exactly the same as inference steps from the
    axioms to the expression yet can be done much more
    quickly because a forward looking search is not
    required. All theorem proving systems use back-chaining
    for this reason.


    Hilbert-Bernays paradox



    (T) The sentence ′P′ is true if and only if P
    The sentence "snow is white" (syntax) is true only if
    {snow is white} (semantics) is state of the world.

    This sentence is not true: "This sentence is not true"
    the outer sentence is true on the basis that the inner
    sentence is not truth apt.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93Bernays_paradox

    % This sentence is not true.
    ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
    LP = not(true(LP)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
    false.

    All instances of pathological self-reference
    are rejected as semantically incoherent.



    Yet, your own statements are such.


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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math on Wed Jun 17 10:03:46 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 6/17/26 9:08 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 08:15 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 10:03 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 07:50 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 9:01 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/04/2026 15:41, olcott wrote:

    A proposition has a well-founded justification tree
    if there is a sequence of back-chained inference
    steps from that proposition to the axioms of the
    formal system.

    By "back-chained inference steps" you mean "chained reversals of
    inferences steps"?


    It is exactly the same as inference steps from the
    axioms to the expression yet can be done much more
    quickly because a forward looking search is not
    required. All theorem proving systems use back-chaining
    for this reason.


    Hilbert-Bernays paradox



    (T) The sentence ′P′ is true if and only if P
    The sentence "snow is white" (syntax) is true only if
    {snow is white} (semantics) is state of the world.

    This sentence is not true: "This sentence is not true"
    the outer sentence is true on the basis that the inner
    sentence is not truth apt.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93Bernays_paradox

    % This sentence is not true.
    ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
    LP = not(true(LP)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
    false.

    All instances of pathological self-reference
    are rejected as semantically incoherent.


    blanket rejecting self-reference is what they were trying a century ago dud

    the turing jump and subsequent "arithmetic hierarchy" applied to
    unsolvable problems is exactly where we left of and made no further
    progress on in computability (because it was a misstep, for
    computability at least)


    Yet, your own statements are such.


    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the lil crank that could
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Wed Jun 17 13:19:11 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 6/17/2026 11:08 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 08:15 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 10:03 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 07:50 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 9:01 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/04/2026 15:41, olcott wrote:

    A proposition has a well-founded justification tree
    if there is a sequence of back-chained inference
    steps from that proposition to the axioms of the
    formal system.

    By "back-chained inference steps" you mean "chained reversals of
    inferences steps"?


    It is exactly the same as inference steps from the
    axioms to the expression yet can be done much more
    quickly because a forward looking search is not
    required. All theorem proving systems use back-chaining
    for this reason.


    Hilbert-Bernays paradox



    (T) The sentence ′P′ is true if and only if P
    The sentence "snow is white" (syntax) is true only if
    {snow is white} (semantics) is state of the world.

    This sentence is not true: "This sentence is not true"
    the outer sentence is true on the basis that the inner
    sentence is not truth apt.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93Bernays_paradox

    % This sentence is not true.
    ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
    LP = not(true(LP)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
    false.

    All instances of pathological self-reference
    are rejected as semantically incoherent.



    Yet, your own statements are such.



    That you do not sufficiently understand what
    I am saying is no actual evidence that any of
    my statements are in any way incoherent.

    That you did not back up your claim with a
    concrete example seems to indicate that you
    think mere rhetoric can be used in place of
    reasoning.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.math.symbolic on Wed Jun 17 13:25:59 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 6/17/2026 12:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 6/17/26 9:08 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 08:15 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 10:03 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 07:50 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 9:01 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/04/2026 15:41, olcott wrote:

    A proposition has a well-founded justification tree
    if there is a sequence of back-chained inference
    steps from that proposition to the axioms of the
    formal system.

    By "back-chained inference steps" you mean "chained reversals of
    inferences steps"?


    It is exactly the same as inference steps from the
    axioms to the expression yet can be done much more
    quickly because a forward looking search is not
    required. All theorem proving systems use back-chaining
    for this reason.


    Hilbert-Bernays paradox



    (T) The sentence ′P′ is true if and only if P
    The sentence "snow is white" (syntax) is true only if
    {snow is white} (semantics) is state of the world.

    This sentence is not true: "This sentence is not true"
    the outer sentence is true on the basis that the inner
    sentence is not truth apt.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93Bernays_paradox

    % This sentence is not true.
    ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
    LP = not(true(LP)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
    false.

    All instances of pathological self-reference
    are rejected as semantically incoherent.


    blanket rejecting self-reference is what they were trying a century ago dud


    YOU MUST PAY 100% COMPLETE ATTENTION TO THE EXACT
    MEANING OF ALL OF MY WORDS, SKIPPING THE TERM
    "PATHOLOGICAL" COMPLETELY CHANGES WHAT I SAID.

    the turing jump and subsequent "arithmetic hierarchy" applied to
    unsolvable problems is exactly where we left of and made no further
    progress on in computability (because it was a misstep, for
    computability at least)


    Proof Theoretic Semantics (PTS) catches pathological
    self-reference (PSR) and rejects it. The key is to make
    sure to totally replace Truth Conditional Semantics
    (TCS) (employed as model theory) with PTS.

    If you continue to make sure to have no idea what
    PTS is you will never understand me. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/proof-theoretic-semantics/


    Yet, your own statements are such.




    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.math.symbolic on Wed Jun 17 12:16:35 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 06/17/2026 11:25 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 12:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 6/17/26 9:08 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 08:15 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 10:03 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 07:50 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 9:01 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/04/2026 15:41, olcott wrote:

    A proposition has a well-founded justification tree
    if there is a sequence of back-chained inference
    steps from that proposition to the axioms of the
    formal system.

    By "back-chained inference steps" you mean "chained reversals of >>>>>>> inferences steps"?


    It is exactly the same as inference steps from the
    axioms to the expression yet can be done much more
    quickly because a forward looking search is not
    required. All theorem proving systems use back-chaining
    for this reason.


    Hilbert-Bernays paradox



    (T) The sentence ′P′ is true if and only if P
    The sentence "snow is white" (syntax) is true only if
    {snow is white} (semantics) is state of the world.

    This sentence is not true: "This sentence is not true"
    the outer sentence is true on the basis that the inner
    sentence is not truth apt.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93Bernays_paradox

    % This sentence is not true.
    ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
    LP = not(true(LP)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
    false.

    All instances of pathological self-reference
    are rejected as semantically incoherent.


    blanket rejecting self-reference is what they were trying a century
    ago dud


    YOU MUST PAY 100% COMPLETE ATTENTION TO THE EXACT
    MEANING OF ALL OF MY WORDS, SKIPPING THE TERM
    "PATHOLOGICAL" COMPLETELY CHANGES WHAT I SAID.

    the turing jump and subsequent "arithmetic hierarchy" applied to
    unsolvable problems is exactly where we left of and made no further
    progress on in computability (because it was a misstep, for
    computability at least)


    Proof Theoretic Semantics (PTS) catches pathological
    self-reference (PSR) and rejects it. The key is to make
    sure to totally replace Truth Conditional Semantics
    (TCS) (employed as model theory) with PTS.

    If you continue to make sure to have no idea what
    PTS is you will never understand me. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/proof-theoretic-semantics/


    Yet, your own statements are such.







    Don't need it.

    (Don't believe it.)


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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.math.symbolic on Wed Jun 17 15:01:12 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 6/17/2026 2:16 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 11:25 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 12:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 6/17/26 9:08 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 08:15 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 10:03 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 07:50 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 9:01 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/04/2026 15:41, olcott wrote:

    A proposition has a well-founded justification tree
    if there is a sequence of back-chained inference
    steps from that proposition to the axioms of the
    formal system.

    By "back-chained inference steps" you mean "chained reversals of >>>>>>>> inferences steps"?


    It is exactly the same as inference steps from the
    axioms to the expression yet can be done much more
    quickly because a forward looking search is not
    required. All theorem proving systems use back-chaining
    for this reason.


    Hilbert-Bernays paradox



    (T) The sentence ′P′ is true if and only if P
    The sentence "snow is white" (syntax) is true only if
    {snow is white} (semantics) is state of the world.

    This sentence is not true: "This sentence is not true"
    the outer sentence is true on the basis that the inner
    sentence is not truth apt.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93Bernays_paradox

    % This sentence is not true.
    ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
    LP = not(true(LP)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
    false.

    All instances of pathological self-reference
    are rejected as semantically incoherent.


    blanket rejecting self-reference is what they were trying a century
    ago dud


    YOU MUST PAY 100% COMPLETE ATTENTION TO THE EXACT
    MEANING OF ALL OF MY WORDS, SKIPPING THE TERM
    "PATHOLOGICAL" COMPLETELY CHANGES WHAT I SAID.

    the turing jump and subsequent "arithmetic hierarchy" applied to
    unsolvable problems is exactly where we left of and made no further
    progress on in computability (because it was a misstep, for
    computability at least)


    Proof Theoretic Semantics (PTS) catches pathological
    self-reference (PSR) and rejects it. The key is to make
    sure to totally replace Truth Conditional Semantics
    (TCS) (employed as model theory) with PTS.

    If you continue to make sure to have no idea what
    PTS is you will never understand me.
    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/proof-theoretic-semantics/


    Yet, your own statements are such.







    Don't need it.

    (Don't believe it.)



    You simply don't "believe in" Proof Theoretic Semantics?
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.math.symbolic on Wed Jun 17 19:26:11 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 6/17/26 11:25 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 12:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 6/17/26 9:08 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 08:15 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 10:03 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 07:50 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 9:01 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/04/2026 15:41, olcott wrote:

    A proposition has a well-founded justification tree
    if there is a sequence of back-chained inference
    steps from that proposition to the axioms of the
    formal system.

    By "back-chained inference steps" you mean "chained reversals of >>>>>>> inferences steps"?


    It is exactly the same as inference steps from the
    axioms to the expression yet can be done much more
    quickly because a forward looking search is not
    required. All theorem proving systems use back-chaining
    for this reason.


    Hilbert-Bernays paradox



    (T) The sentence ′P′ is true if and only if P
    The sentence "snow is white" (syntax) is true only if
    {snow is white} (semantics) is state of the world.

    This sentence is not true: "This sentence is not true"
    the outer sentence is true on the basis that the inner
    sentence is not truth apt.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93Bernays_paradox

    % This sentence is not true.
    ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
    LP = not(true(LP)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
    false.

    All instances of pathological self-reference
    are rejected as semantically incoherent.


    blanket rejecting self-reference is what they were trying a century
    ago dud


    YOU MUST PAY 100% COMPLETE ATTENTION TO THE EXACT
    MEANING OF ALL OF MY WORDS, SKIPPING THE TERM
    "PATHOLOGICAL" COMPLETELY CHANGES WHAT I SAID.

    how do u differentiate between pathological and non pathological?

    and like ... just cause someone has a pathological self-reference
    doesn't mean a truth doesn't exist in regards to the question being asked.


    the turing jump and subsequent "arithmetic hierarchy" applied to
    unsolvable problems is exactly where we left of and made no further
    progress on in computability (because it was a misstep, for
    computability at least)


    Proof Theoretic Semantics (PTS) catches pathological
    self-reference (PSR) and rejects it. The key is to make
    sure to totally replace Truth Conditional Semantics
    (TCS) (employed as model theory) with PTS.

    If you continue to make sure to have no idea what
    PTS is you will never understand me. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/proof-theoretic-semantics/


    if ur not willing to put this in terms of a machine runtime idk what ur talking about really.

    computing deals with explicit facts that exist in explicit states of the computation, where more fundamental logic doesn't have that concept of
    when things exist, only that they do or not.


    Yet, your own statements are such.






    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the lil crank that could
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.math.symbolic on Wed Jun 17 23:01:16 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 6/17/2026 9:26 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 6/17/26 11:25 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 12:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 6/17/26 9:08 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 08:15 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 10:03 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 07:50 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 9:01 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/04/2026 15:41, olcott wrote:

    A proposition has a well-founded justification tree
    if there is a sequence of back-chained inference
    steps from that proposition to the axioms of the
    formal system.

    By "back-chained inference steps" you mean "chained reversals of >>>>>>>> inferences steps"?


    It is exactly the same as inference steps from the
    axioms to the expression yet can be done much more
    quickly because a forward looking search is not
    required. All theorem proving systems use back-chaining
    for this reason.


    Hilbert-Bernays paradox



    (T) The sentence ′P′ is true if and only if P
    The sentence "snow is white" (syntax) is true only if
    {snow is white} (semantics) is state of the world.

    This sentence is not true: "This sentence is not true"
    the outer sentence is true on the basis that the inner
    sentence is not truth apt.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93Bernays_paradox

    % This sentence is not true.
    ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
    LP = not(true(LP)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
    false.

    All instances of pathological self-reference
    are rejected as semantically incoherent.


    blanket rejecting self-reference is what they were trying a century
    ago dud


    YOU MUST PAY 100% COMPLETE ATTENTION TO THE EXACT
    MEANING OF ALL OF MY WORDS, SKIPPING THE TERM
    "PATHOLOGICAL" COMPLETELY CHANGES WHAT I SAID.

    how do u differentiate between pathological and non pathological?


    It is the exact same pattern as the above
    Prolog code for every instance of specifically
    pathological self-reference.

    This sentence has five words. // is not pathological

    and like ... just cause someone has a pathological self-reference
    doesn't mean a truth doesn't exist in regards to the question being asked.


    It means the question is incoherent.


    the turing jump and subsequent "arithmetic hierarchy" applied to
    unsolvable problems is exactly where we left of and made no further
    progress on in computability (because it was a misstep, for
    computability at least)


    Proof Theoretic Semantics (PTS) catches pathological
    self-reference (PSR) and rejects it. The key is to make
    sure to totally replace Truth Conditional Semantics
    (TCS) (employed as model theory) with PTS.

    If you continue to make sure to have no idea what
    PTS is you will never understand me.
    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/proof-theoretic-semantics/


    if ur not willing to put this in terms of a machine runtime idk what ur talking about really.


    I have put this in terms of machine run-time
    for a few years now and people just assume
    that I must be wrong because they assume that
    the conventional view is inherently infallible.

    https://github.com/plolcott/x86utm/blob/master/Halt7.c
    Proof Theoretic Halt Prover HHH correctly determines
    that its input DD does not represent a well-founded
    justification tree.

    computing deals with explicit facts that exist in explicit states of the computation, where more fundamental logic doesn't have that concept of
    when things exist, only that they do or not.


    Yet, your own statements are such.








    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Thu Jun 18 14:33:59 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 17/06/2026 15:50, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 9:01 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/04/2026 15:41, olcott wrote:

    A proposition has a well-founded justification tree
    if there is a sequence of back-chained inference
    steps from that proposition to the axioms of the
    formal system.

    By "back-chained inference steps" you mean "chained reversals of
    inferences steps"?


    It is exactly the same as inference steps from the
    axioms to the expression yet can be done much more
    quickly because a forward looking search is not
    required. All theorem proving systems use back-chaining
    for this reason.


    As does computation itself, as we have been told by Curry in Combinatory
    Logic I. I'm sure others told us even before that.

    However, I'd like to see a proof of the relative quickness claim, axiom targetting can get stuck in loops and axioms schemes may be infinite so
    suffer as much in search complexity as theorem targetting.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.
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  • From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.math.symbolic on Thu Jun 18 14:40:23 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 17/06/2026 19:25, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 12:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 6/17/26 9:08 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 08:15 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 10:03 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 07:50 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 9:01 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/04/2026 15:41, olcott wrote:

    A proposition has a well-founded justification tree
    if there is a sequence of back-chained inference
    steps from that proposition to the axioms of the
    formal system.

    By "back-chained inference steps" you mean "chained reversals of >>>>>>> inferences steps"?


    It is exactly the same as inference steps from the
    axioms to the expression yet can be done much more
    quickly because a forward looking search is not
    required. All theorem proving systems use back-chaining
    for this reason.


    Hilbert-Bernays paradox



    (T) The sentence ′P′ is true if and only if P
    The sentence "snow is white" (syntax) is true only if
    {snow is white} (semantics) is state of the world.

    This sentence is not true: "This sentence is not true"
    the outer sentence is true on the basis that the inner
    sentence is not truth apt.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93Bernays_paradox

    % This sentence is not true.
    ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
    LP = not(true(LP)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
    false.

    All instances of pathological self-reference
    are rejected as semantically incoherent.


    blanket rejecting self-reference is what they were trying a century
    ago dud


    YOU MUST PAY 100% COMPLETE ATTENTION TO THE EXACT
    MEANING OF ALL OF MY WORDS, SKIPPING THE TERM
    "PATHOLOGICAL" COMPLETELY CHANGES WHAT I SAID.

    But you have proven yourself not to be a hyperbole-free zone. You have
    to use more tone and mood to re-assure the reader that common hyperbole
    words are not that in what they're reading.
    --
    Tristan Wibberley

    The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except
    citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
    of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
    verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
    promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
    of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
    superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
    any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
    will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Thu Jun 18 08:56:00 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 6/18/2026 8:33 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/06/2026 15:50, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 9:01 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/04/2026 15:41, olcott wrote:

    A proposition has a well-founded justification tree
    if there is a sequence of back-chained inference
    steps from that proposition to the axioms of the
    formal system.

    By "back-chained inference steps" you mean "chained reversals of
    inferences steps"?


    It is exactly the same as inference steps from the
    axioms to the expression yet can be done much more
    quickly because a forward looking search is not
    required. All theorem proving systems use back-chaining
    for this reason.


    As does computation itself, as we have been told by Curry in Combinatory Logic I. I'm sure others told us even before that.

    However, I'd like to see a proof of the relative quickness claim, axiom targetting can get stuck in loops and axioms schemes may be infinite so suffer as much in search complexity as theorem targetting.


    The axioms themselves never get stuck in loops because
    they are stored in an acyclic directed graph / simple type
    hierarchy / knowledge ontology.

    Also they form a finite list because they are restricted
    to atomic facts only of general knowledge. Temporary
    systems of axioms can be created for situation specific
    knowledge.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.math.symbolic on Thu Jun 18 09:02:22 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 6/18/2026 8:40 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/06/2026 19:25, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 12:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 6/17/26 9:08 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 08:15 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 10:03 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 07:50 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 9:01 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/04/2026 15:41, olcott wrote:

    A proposition has a well-founded justification tree
    if there is a sequence of back-chained inference
    steps from that proposition to the axioms of the
    formal system.

    By "back-chained inference steps" you mean "chained reversals of >>>>>>>> inferences steps"?


    It is exactly the same as inference steps from the
    axioms to the expression yet can be done much more
    quickly because a forward looking search is not
    required. All theorem proving systems use back-chaining
    for this reason.


    Hilbert-Bernays paradox



    (T) The sentence ′P′ is true if and only if P
    The sentence "snow is white" (syntax) is true only if
    {snow is white} (semantics) is state of the world.

    This sentence is not true: "This sentence is not true"
    the outer sentence is true on the basis that the inner
    sentence is not truth apt.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93Bernays_paradox

    % This sentence is not true.
    ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
    LP = not(true(LP)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
    false.

    All instances of pathological self-reference
    are rejected as semantically incoherent.


    blanket rejecting self-reference is what they were trying a century
    ago dud


    YOU MUST PAY 100% COMPLETE ATTENTION TO THE EXACT
    MEANING OF ALL OF MY WORDS, SKIPPING THE TERM
    "PATHOLOGICAL" COMPLETELY CHANGES WHAT I SAID.

    But you have proven yourself not to be a hyperbole-free zone. You have
    to use more tone and mood to re-assure the reader that common hyperbole
    words are not that in what they're reading.



    When I use the term: "pathological self reference" (PSR)
    removing any one of the words changes the meaning such
    that this changed meaning is not what I am referring to.

    My actual 28 years of research focused entirely on
    resolving the various specific concrete examples of PSR.
    This was a mandatory prerequisite to making:

    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Thu Jun 18 12:36:37 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 6/18/2026 6:56 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/18/2026 8:33 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 17/06/2026 15:50, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 9:01 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/04/2026 15:41, olcott wrote:

    A proposition has a well-founded justification tree
    if there is a sequence of back-chained inference
    steps from that proposition to the axioms of the
    formal system.

    By "back-chained inference steps" you mean "chained reversals of
    inferences steps"?


    It is exactly the same as inference steps from the
    axioms to the expression yet can be done much more
    quickly because a forward looking search is not
    required. All theorem proving systems use back-chaining
    for this reason.


    As does computation itself, as we have been told by Curry in Combinatory
    Logic I. I'm sure others told us even before that.

    However, I'd like to see a proof of the relative quickness claim, axiom
    targetting can get stuck in loops and axioms schemes may be infinite so
    suffer as much in search complexity as theorem targetting.


    Also, jumping to conclusions can be totally erroneous! My thoughts about
    Ross as an example.



    The axioms themselves never get stuck in loops because
    they are stored in an acyclic directed graph / simple type
    hierarchy / knowledge ontology.

    Also they form a finite list because they are restricted
    to atomic facts only of general knowledge. Temporary
    systems of axioms can be created for situation specific
    knowledge.


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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.math.symbolic on Thu Jun 18 19:26:33 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 6/17/26 9:01 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 9:26 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 6/17/26 11:25 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 12:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 6/17/26 9:08 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 08:15 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 10:03 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 07:50 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 9:01 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/04/2026 15:41, olcott wrote:

    A proposition has a well-founded justification tree
    if there is a sequence of back-chained inference
    steps from that proposition to the axioms of the
    formal system.

    By "back-chained inference steps" you mean "chained reversals of >>>>>>>>> inferences steps"?


    It is exactly the same as inference steps from the
    axioms to the expression yet can be done much more
    quickly because a forward looking search is not
    required. All theorem proving systems use back-chaining
    for this reason.


    Hilbert-Bernays paradox



    (T) The sentence ′P′ is true if and only if P
    The sentence "snow is white" (syntax) is true only if
    {snow is white} (semantics) is state of the world.

    This sentence is not true: "This sentence is not true"
    the outer sentence is true on the basis that the inner
    sentence is not truth apt.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93Bernays_paradox

    % This sentence is not true.
    ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
    LP = not(true(LP)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
    false.

    All instances of pathological self-reference
    are rejected as semantically incoherent.


    blanket rejecting self-reference is what they were trying a century
    ago dud


    YOU MUST PAY 100% COMPLETE ATTENTION TO THE EXACT
    MEANING OF ALL OF MY WORDS, SKIPPING THE TERM
    "PATHOLOGICAL" COMPLETELY CHANGES WHAT I SAID.

    how do u differentiate between pathological and non pathological?


    It is the exact same pattern as the above
    Prolog code for every instance of specifically
    pathological self-reference.

    This sentence has five words. // is not pathological

    and like ... just cause someone has a pathological self-reference
    doesn't mean a truth doesn't exist in regards to the question being
    asked.


    It means the question is incoherent.

    but the factual truth is _all_ real machines either belong to set of
    halting OR non-halting set, there is no middle ground

    labeling the question HH(DDD) as incoherent is just another form of
    giving up on producing the answer in some coherent manner using some
    form of logic not yet thought of

    if i'm not misunderstanding: i simply reject that non-resolution



    the turing jump and subsequent "arithmetic hierarchy" applied to
    unsolvable problems is exactly where we left of and made no further
    progress on in computability (because it was a misstep, for
    computability at least)


    Proof Theoretic Semantics (PTS) catches pathological
    self-reference (PSR) and rejects it. The key is to make
    sure to totally replace Truth Conditional Semantics
    (TCS) (employed as model theory) with PTS.

    If you continue to make sure to have no idea what
    PTS is you will never understand me.
    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/proof-theoretic-semantics/


    if ur not willing to put this in terms of a machine runtime idk what
    ur talking about really.


    I have put this in terms of machine run-time
    for a few years now and people just assume
    that I must be wrong because they assume that
    the conventional view is inherently infallible.

    https://github.com/plolcott/x86utm/blob/master/Halt7.c
    Proof Theoretic Halt Prover HHH correctly determines
    that its input DD does not represent a well-founded
    justification tree.

    computing deals with explicit facts that exist in explicit states of
    the computation, where more fundamental logic doesn't have that
    concept of when things exist, only that they do or not.


    Yet, your own statements are such.










    --
    arising us out of the computing dark ages,
    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,
    ~ the lil crank that could
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.math.symbolic on Thu Jun 18 21:43:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 6/18/2026 9:26 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 6/17/26 9:01 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 9:26 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 6/17/26 11:25 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 12:03 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 6/17/26 9:08 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 08:15 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 10:03 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/17/2026 07:50 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 6/17/2026 9:01 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    On 24/04/2026 15:41, olcott wrote:

    A proposition has a well-founded justification tree
    if there is a sequence of back-chained inference
    steps from that proposition to the axioms of the
    formal system.

    By "back-chained inference steps" you mean "chained reversals of >>>>>>>>>> inferences steps"?


    It is exactly the same as inference steps from the
    axioms to the expression yet can be done much more
    quickly because a forward looking search is not
    required. All theorem proving systems use back-chaining
    for this reason.


    Hilbert-Bernays paradox



    (T) The sentence ′P′ is true if and only if P
    The sentence "snow is white" (syntax) is true only if
    {snow is white} (semantics) is state of the world.

    This sentence is not true: "This sentence is not true"
    the outer sentence is true on the basis that the inner
    sentence is not truth apt.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93Bernays_paradox

    % This sentence is not true.
    ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
    LP = not(true(LP)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
    false.

    All instances of pathological self-reference
    are rejected as semantically incoherent.


    blanket rejecting self-reference is what they were trying a century >>>>> ago dud


    YOU MUST PAY 100% COMPLETE ATTENTION TO THE EXACT
    MEANING OF ALL OF MY WORDS, SKIPPING THE TERM
    "PATHOLOGICAL" COMPLETELY CHANGES WHAT I SAID.

    how do u differentiate between pathological and non pathological?


    It is the exact same pattern as the above
    Prolog code for every instance of specifically
    pathological self-reference.

    This sentence has five words. // is not pathological

    and like ... just cause someone has a pathological self-reference
    doesn't mean a truth doesn't exist in regards to the question being
    asked.


    It means the question is incoherent.

    but the factual truth is _all_ real machines either belong to set of
    halting OR non-halting set, there is no middle ground

    labeling the question HH(DDD) as incoherent is just another form of
    giving up on producing the answer in some coherent manner using some
    form of logic not yet thought of

    if i'm not misunderstanding: i simply reject that non-resolution


    The pathological input to the halting problem is merely
    yet another example of pathological self-reference like
    the liar paradox. People are so fucking indoctrinated
    that they remained too stupid to even understand that one.

    After 2000 years there is still no official resolution
    of the Liar Paradox primarily because even very smart
    people are no more that a herd of sheep.

    % This sentence is not true.
    ?- LP = not(true(LP)).
    LP = not(true(LP)).
    ?- unify_with_occurs_check(LP, not(true(LP))).
    false.

    THAT IS THE FINAL RESOLUTION OF THE LIAR PARADOX.



    the turing jump and subsequent "arithmetic hierarchy" applied to
    unsolvable problems is exactly where we left of and made no further >>>>> progress on in computability (because it was a misstep, for
    computability at least)


    Proof Theoretic Semantics (PTS) catches pathological
    self-reference (PSR) and rejects it. The key is to make
    sure to totally replace Truth Conditional Semantics
    (TCS) (employed as model theory) with PTS.

    If you continue to make sure to have no idea what
    PTS is you will never understand me.
    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/proof-theoretic-semantics/


    if ur not willing to put this in terms of a machine runtime idk what
    ur talking about really.


    I have put this in terms of machine run-time
    for a few years now and people just assume
    that I must be wrong because they assume that
    the conventional view is inherently infallible.

    https://github.com/plolcott/x86utm/blob/master/Halt7.c
    Proof Theoretic Halt Prover HHH correctly determines
    that its input DD does not represent a well-founded
    justification tree.

    computing deals with explicit facts that exist in explicit states of
    the computation, where more fundamental logic doesn't have that
    concept of when things exist, only that they do or not.


    Yet, your own statements are such.












    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.math.symbolic on Fri Jun 19 13:00:15 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 6/18/2026 7:26 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]

    What about a program that uses the result from a TRNG either halt or
    not? Sometimes it halts...
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  • From phoenix@j63840576@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.math.symbolic on Sun Jun 21 12:28:04 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 6/18/2026 7:26 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]

    What about a program that uses the result from a TRNG either halt or
    not? Sometimes it halts...

    I didn't get olcott's reasons for 0 and 100 % halting being disincluded
    from the consideration. Did you get that? It appears disingenuous. Just
    a lark? Is this the kind of escapades olcott gets up to that has you
    confusing him with me? If it were me, I would be disincluding 77.3% and
    21.5%. See, there's a fair difference in our thought processes.
    --
    We eat the night, we drink the time
    Make our dreams come true
    And hungry eyes are passing by
    On streets we call the zoo
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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,sci.math.symbolic on Thu Jun 25 12:35:56 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 6/21/2026 11:28 AM, phoenix wrote:
    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 6/18/2026 7:26 PM, dart200 wrote:
    [...]

    What about a program that uses the result from a TRNG either halt or
    not? Sometimes it halts...

    I didn't get olcott's reasons for 0 and 100 % halting being disincluded
    from the consideration. Did you get that? It appears disingenuous. Just
    a lark? Is this the kind of escapades olcott gets up to that has you confusing him with me? If it were me, I would be disincluding 77.3% and 21.5%. See, there's a fair difference in our thought processes.


    Ditto.
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